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a bit of innocent fun

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Every single 250ml innocent smoothie contains two full portions of your recommended five a day. Considering how difficult it is to actually consume five portions of fruit and vegetables every single day, this is some feat. Therefore, our brief was to communicate innocent’s health credentials in a way that really engaged with people. The last thing we wanted was to sound like we were ordering people to be healthier, or to sound smug, self-satisfied or preachy. That’s not very innocent, after all. We wanted our audience to choose to spend time playing with the brand, and we took that very literally.

Late one night in a coding frenzy completely unrelated to fruit, one of our digital ninjas, space invaders fan Colm Doyle had an idea: what if the sky was suddenly filled with falling fruit and bottles of innocent smoothies? Catch them in your picnic basket you’d score points. You’d score one point for an apple or a banana, two for a bottle of innocent (See…two a day?). Catch the falling junk food and you’d lose points.

Brendan, Ali and Helen down in Fruit Towers really liked the idea and so here it is. An online campaign, where you can play away to your heart’s content. We’ve also designed and built a facebook application through which you can publish your score and challenge your friends to play.

Unsurprisingly, Colm’s is the highest score so far. See how you fare at the innocent smoothies Facebook page

Well done to the agency team: Colm Doyle (tech. developer, the one with the idea), Andrew Moran (tech. manager), Lucy Ryan (account manager), Elaine Kinsella (flash developer), Greg McLoughlin (words) and Tim Mudie (pictures).

And of course thanks to our clients in Fruit Towers, Dublin.

Tags: Andrew Moran, app, Colm Doyle, Creative, Digital, Elaine Kinsella, Facebook, Greg McLoughlin, innocent, Lucy Ryan, Tim Mudie
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The Crush wins Best Short at Foyle Film Festival

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Our own Michael Creagh, award winning art director, is now an award winning filmmaker too.

His film The Crush scooped Best Irish Short at the recent Foyle Film Festival. 

Starring Michael’s son, Oran, it tells the story of 8 year old Ardal Travis who is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel – to the death. Michael wrote and directed the film which was shot last Spring in and around Skerries with director of photography Jim Creagh and producer Damon Quinn, from the Hole in the Wall Gang.

Tags: Awards, Film, Foyle Film Festival, Michael Creagh, Saibh Hooper, The Crush
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Creativity and exotic plants

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Tim Mudie, Senior Art Director here in McConnellsintegrated, shared the below video with all of us in the office this morning: the wonderful John Cleese talking about the conditions necessary for creativity. Some years ago I heard creativity being described as an exotic plant. We need to carefully tend it. Place it in a greenhouse, water it, and watch it flourish*. We, the communications planners, the account handlers need to enable creativity. Our role is to facilitate, inspire and guide. If you put a tropical flower in the back garden in winter no matter how much you will it to grow and no matter how much you plead with it or ask it sternly to grow …it just won’t. Wilting is inevitable. John Cleese has a not too dissimilar take on creativity.

Watch it here:

*there is one caveat: pruning is sometimes necessary.

Tags: John Cleese, Saibh Hooper, Tim Mudie
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